Nations Quote by Desmond Tutu Download Open image “Being formed into a nation takes some doing.” — Desmond Tutu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nations
Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.” — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
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